Remember this, forget it! 24th to 30th

[flo]

Remember this: Finished interp choreography, like the changes. Had nice consistiency with the camel-fly-camel.
The Mountain cup schedule is out. My interp will be a little after the pairs. If it were before it would be a good warm up, after it's a good end to the skating.

Forget it: Hope not to when Rob comes up for practice. We haven't done the program since Nats.

[Terri C]

Remember this: How to do the salchow/toeloop combo that is in program that I landed in both runthroughs today, as well as the two sitspins!!! Basically, the program is coming together well!!:D

Forget it: Yes it was nice to do eight step mohawk into sitspin, but since it's taking up too much time, take out the eighth step and do the second sitspin out of step seven, leaving time for the closing loop !
Let's hope I can remember this change for Wednesday's lesson!

[Rusty Blades]

Remember This Spent the session working on my backwards - FINALLY starting to hit some shaky one-foot glides (more than a Second or two) after WEEKS of backward sculling! I can feel backward edges just around the corner :mrgreen:

Forget It With all this work trying to get my backward skating, my LFOs suck big time from being neglected. I don't care! 8O I've got lots of time to work on them along with my BACKWARD edges! ;) (Having all 8 edges by September was my first return-to-skating goal that I set when I started in January.)

[Mrs Redboots]

Remember this: Which is exactly what my coach didn't do - he rang up last night having had a horrible suspicion he'd forgotten to tell us he wasn't in today! Oops.... but at least he told us in time. Lessons rescheduled for tomorrow (Wednesday).

We did remember to take the camcorder to the rink - but didn't take the charger and discovered the hard way that it was completely discharged! It is now charging, and I hope to take it tomorrow.

Ice absolutely empty - I don't think there were ever more than six people on at any one time. Husband ran through his programme to the music at least 3 times, it is definitely going to be "all right on the night", I think - he doesn't! I did mine a couple of times, but I'm not too worried about mine. His, after all, is his first-ever, after all these years.

Together we ran through the Canadian Cha-cha, the Swing Dance, our free dance and the Rhythm Blues, more or less well. But the Mountain Cup is in three weeks oh help! And Bracknell closes while we're away, so I must sort out whether I can add an extra 15 seconds to my Interp for it and the Lambeth. If there is a Lambeth, I don't know.

Dance Moves reasonable - bit scrapy. I do hate it when there's no music and you hear every scrape!

Forget it! Why can I never remember which Dance Move I am doing after I've done the back crossovers round the top end of the rink? And why can Husband never remember to wait on the back edge before doing his loop jump, he always rushes it! I've told him to think spiral, back edge, loop jump, which helps - he does forward spiral, 3-turn, loop jump, and rushes it dreadfully.

[flo]

Rusty - congrats!

[Isk8NYC]

Remember This!
I actually skated at a rink yesterday, with people I like. Empty session. Priceless. (Well, only $6)

Forget That!
All I worked on was a program for one of my show groups. I had to revise the beginning because it was too complicated for them to remember. Now, I just need something interesting near the end - I think the pinwheel might be coming back. Bwahahaha! :twisted:

[slusher]

Remember this:

I found some new ice. And it's only $2.00 with a fresh flood!

Forget it:

Apparently I have two types of loop jumps. The loop and the floop. That's my flip that slides. I can't seem to dig my toe deep enough into the ice to get a good grip. Thus I slip off onto the outside edge and the jump really finishes as a loop. The ice cannot lie and the tracing is quite clear, there's the toepick mark and then a lovely little comma which is the loop edge.

[Mrs Redboots]

Remember this: So if you go here (http://mrs-redboots.sk8rland.com/video/) you will be able to see me and the Husband doing a Canadian cha-cha, and a rather poor quality video of us doing a Dutch Waltz.

Oh, by the way, I'm wearing leggings despite all that I've said here as the Husband needed the car this morning, and it's easier to skate in leggings and minimise what I have to carry!

Forget it: And our coach spent ages and ages this morning videoing us doing all sorts of things - all 4 compulsories, and our free dance, and his free programme (which I would not have posted, let's be fair) and my dance moves (and him doing them to show me how they should be done, for comparison), and my artistic, and none of it's come out except what you see. Wail.....:cry: :cry:

And just after I'd told him he was dogmeat if he dropped me, the Husband proceeded to make a nonsense of the new entry into our lift, and dropped me, flat on my back on the ice. Whereupon my T-shirt and sweatshirt rode up so that my naked back was caressing the ice, which was cold! He's dogmeat.... he is sooooooo dogmeat!

[phoenix]

Cool videos, Annabel! The Dutch Waltz was too spotty, but the cha-cha I could see. Didn't look bad at all--too low quality video to see if you're on time though. Thanks, post more when you can!

Remember: Today was twizzle day! I've only ever done FI twizzles, can do up to triples pretty consistently. So today he taught me FO (hard!!!), Back outside (easy), and back inside (thought would be very hard, actually pretty easy). Then an exercise: FO swing roll, change edge/swing the foot back & drop to a FI lunge, come up & double twizzle. Then step onto the other foot & repeat. I like it, but I don't think I've *ever* done lunges on my right side--I don't think I'll be able to walk tomorrow!

Forget: Then more choctaws, which are still disgustingly dismal, then one more new exercise: start on BO edge, 2 choctaws, then 4 brackets, repeat. He had me doing this on the diagonal, all the way across. I lose speed & can only do about 1 full set before I have to get myself going again.

So, so far to go! Friday we'll start choreographing our OD, which I hope will be great fun (probably more for me than him, but hey, at least he's getting paid!) Of course, I'll need all that footwork & more, so I've got my work cut out for me.

[cutiesk8r43]

Remember This:
I PASSED IN DANCE. THE DUTCH WALTZ AND CANASTA TANGO!! YAAAY
and i got to miss school TEE HEE:D :halo:


~Cutie;)

[dbny]

Between my foot/boot problems, losing several months to illness this winter, the insane freestyle that is available, and my lack of coaching, I have been so discouraged that I've been thinking of quitting altogether. On my way to the rink, Monday, I called my best friend, who does not skate, and poured out my woes. She was so helpful and encouraging that I actually got the rink feeling much, much better.

Remember This:
At the freestyle, I first teach a 7 yr old who has been with me for one and a half seasons after coming out of the Mommy & Me class. She's doing so well, that her lesson warmed me up for my own practice! I didn't fuss with my boots at all. I could feel that they were loose, but by ignoring it, I was able to continue to skate without having my toes go completely numb in the first 15 minutes. The session was so crazy that I was unable to finish any of the patterns I worked on, but it was still good to do the F & B XO's and the F power perimeter XO's as if I had some intention of testing. Just being able to do the FO alt threes again is a plus for me. I made myself do two iterations of the spiral stretches and didn't feel totally exhausted or in pain afterwards.

Forget it:
I am still soooo out of shape that I had to stop after every pattern attempt even though I was unable to complete any of them. Basically, one time around is it right now. Blades are in desperate need of sharpening, which is making working on power pulls a bit scary. An adequate check is still missing on my alt FO threes! This is one of the things that discourages me the most. I don't see the point in any further coaching on these, as I've heard it all already, and know what is wrong, but just can't fix it :x.

[phoenix]

An adequate check is still missing on my alt FO threes! This is one of the things that discourages me the most. I don't see the point in any further coaching on these, as I've heard it all already, and know what is wrong, but just can't fix it :x.

Actually I've seen these taught several different ways....maybe it would help to have a lesson or 2 from a different coach, just might work if you find a different technique.

[dbny]

Actually I've seen these taught several different ways....maybe it would help to have a lesson or 2 from a different coach, just might work if you find a different technique.

Thanks, I would like to do that, but the coach I finally decided I would like to try, is way too expensive for me.

[coskater64]

Remember this: Got my Interp music put together and have about 90% of it done. Did my program (fs) and it is getting better.

Forget it: Footwork in my artistic pulled most muscles my left and right shoulder, and pulled that cranky muscle in the back of my knee.

Ouch!

[cassarilda]

Remember This:

Coffee Club was good... I felt more comfortable that my knee was getting better, but I still didnt do crossovers (forward or back) in the class.
T-stops are getting better. :)
I was practising 3-turns at speed afterwards, because I need to get more comfortable with them... this led to me realising that Im not on my LFO edge properly, so I spent pretty much the rest of the lesson trying to correct my posture, roll my ankle slightly more, anything that would get me onto that edge... I think that my blade alignment is slightly out, but I know for a fact that when skating on my left leg, my right hip drops, and I have to work on my whole body posture to bring it up and core strength to stop my body twisting... Im not putting it under forget this, cos I really need to work on it! :roll: BUT, I did manage to do a few good 3turns at speed, which Im happy with.
The ice is getting softer and less brittle, which means less massive chunks being taken out of it.
I did the Canasta Tango and the Dutch Waltz.. again problems with edges, but its posture related - I remembered all of both of them which was good :D
I did both forward and backwards crossovers in the session afterwards... yay! ... if I dont think about them, its fine :roll:


Forget This:

My left boot is sore... or correction, my left foot is sore... the instep aches and the knuckle of my big toe is threatening to form into a large lump or bunion if Im not careful... Im off to find some leather softener today.
My posture... skating on my right leg is no problem, left leg sucks.. :frus:
There came a large group of children to the session after coffee club... they didnt even give us an hour of public :frus: They were erratic, rude and dangerous... one boy (about 15) ran into the barrier and also the little old 60yo who was standing there... it was more of a body slam... he did apologise, but he was skating so dangerously Im suprised they didnt injure themselves more... they were dodging into the centre, cutting across peoples program lines, and one boy almost got his head impaled by a spinning blade :roll: I just wish that the management were actually watching them so to tell them to be more responsible.. but no, they were outside having a smoke :??

[Terri C]

I think anyone will remember skating a clean freeskate program!! I did today on lesson!! :D :D :D

Forget it:
Trying to get my artistic program on- this one parent insisted that her daughter skate her program, never mind the fact that I very clearly stated that I was in lesson!! :roll: :x

[jazzpants]

A morning to forget!!! :roll:

Secondary coach and I worked on forward crossovers and insisting on extensions the entire time... (And yup, Thin-Ice! She wants every time you pick up the foot, she wants to see extension!!! Even the push under... ) The lesson almost killed me. 8O

Tried to do the forward power 3's too. First set was crap. Second set it got better after some fixes... but she still wasn't happy afterwards!!! Yup! The dreaded choctaw again! "You have to fix this... NOW!!!" she says. (Yup! The pressure is on...)

Remember this!!!

Stay away from the pairs practicing death spirals, unless you want to be part of the death spirals!!! 8O (I didn't get in their way, but I was told to remember that after coming a bit too close to them for secondary coach's comfort while practicing power 3 patterns!!!)

[Skittl1321]

Remember this: I can do RFO three turns! More than once! Enough times to say "I got it!" I finally figured out why I was doing the backwards snowplow stop wrong- I was lifting my foot as if it was T-stop, putting it down and pushing. Now that I am "flexing" through and actually plowing the stop works. AND we got our progress reports for Basic 3 and 4 and I didn't get one. She said if we didn't get one we are checked off for the level and passed!!!!!

Forget this My ankle is acting up. I think I laced my right boot too tight over the very top of my foot/bottom of ankle and might have aggrevated my tendonitis. But if they aren't tight my ankles feel wobbly. My knee also hurts. Doing those snowplow stops incorrectly really screwed it around badly. Glad I finally figured out what I was doing. My edges were slipping like crazy today and I almost fell on easy things (forward swizzles on a circle?) a few times. Not cool.

A detailed entry of my class can be found here:
http://community.livejournal.com/skittles_skates/3580.html

[Rusty Blades]

Forget it! Long hard day at work, arrived at the rink exhausted, didn't even get time to warm up! Coach grabbed me coming onto the ice and put me straight to work on forward stroking working on my (weaker) left leg and getting my hips square (I tend to lead with the right hip) . . . . COM'ON, I am OLD, I need time to get my "ice legs" back each time and to warm up! LOL!

Worth remembering Backward one-foot glides getting steadily better, so-so tentative backward stroking. (Must remember to wear my butt pad Saturday so I can really dig in on the backward stuff - I WANT MY BACKWARD EDGES BACK NOW! 8O 8-) )

[jazzpants]

Forget about it!

Perimeter back crossovers are crappy. Primary coach says snidely "What do you need to do when you're doing a back crossovers????" Me: "Crossover the foot?" :oops: Coach: "YES!!!" :twisted: Back I go and finally I get mad enough of not doing it that I forced it out of me and THEN he says it was better!!! :roll: :lol:
5 step mohawks: Primary coach ran me so ragged that I barely had enough in me to do them... and I mean BARELY!!! :giveup: He said that I need to curve more on the 4th step again... :roll:Remember this!

Have to remember to take 30 minutes to warm up! :roll:
Forward crossovers are REALLY pretty good... except I need EXTENSION! Once I was reminded of it, it was better...
Back crossovers to back outside edge was better, to the point where primary coach says "Now why can't do you back crossovers like that on the perimeter back crossovers???" :roll: :twisted:
Power 3's... well, not much said about it other than to make sure to turn my torso so I would step FORWARD and not resort to turning the foot to make the choctaw. He's definitely happier with the LFO3. (Funny, secondary coach is NOT happy with the LFO3 side either.)
5 step mohawk: Primary coach mentioned one section that needs fixing and it was fixed right away (see above for the one section fixed.) My fellow skate buddy, WeirFan06 (http://www.skatingforums.com/member.php?u=7887) was also watching me during the lesson and said that she thought my 5 step looked nice, though she also added "but my opinion of it doesn't matter since I'm nowhere near being a JUDGE!!!" :roll: :lol:

[WeirFan06]

Yes, I did think your 5-step mohawk looked nice... hmm... probably better than mine.

But considering that poor, innocent "primary coach" is not here to reply... I feel compelled to report to the masses that he was ONLY trying to get jazzpants to cross the foot all the way over. You see jazzpants gets all stiff in the hips and CHEATS the move! And apparently she has to get MAD :x in order to do it! You see... it was all in his plan. Yes, his evil crossover plan!

[jazzpants]

Yes, I did think your 5-step mohawk looked nice... hmm... probably better than mine. Thanks for the compliment!!! :D

But considering that poor, innocent "primary coach" is not here to reply... I feel compelled to report to the masses that he was ONLY trying to get jazzpants to cross the foot all the way over. You see jazzpants gets all stiff in the hips and CHEATS the move! And apparently she has to get MAD :x in order to do it! You see... it was all in his plan. Yes, his evil crossover plan!"Poor, innocent primary coach" Yeah, right!!! :roll: :twisted: :lol: (He's EVIL, I tell 'ya!!! EVILLE!!! http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/teufel/d010.gif LOL!!!)

[Isk8NYC]

Nice Smilie-from-Hell!

Remember this:
We started rehearsals for the pro number tonight. Awesome practice, even though it started at 10pm. Enjoyed every minute of it, and I wrote down all the steps so I can practice by myself. Now to get a copy of the music...

Forget It:
So far, my boots are holding up. I talked to our pro shop about getting a pair of freestyle boots - silly me! They don't keep adult freestyle boots in stock, so there will be a four week wait - by that time, the show will be done. Probably just go visit Klingbeil and see if Don can stiffen them without crushing my feet again.

[Mrs Redboots]

Remember this: Our new lift entry actually worked today, and I actually felt dizzy when he put me down again! Which wouldn't have mattered, except that we have to go straight into the step sequence, and I'm usually dizzy right after our spin, which is at the beginning. Ah well.

Managed to remember to fill in Husband's PPC form, only I gather one is supposed to use the recognised abbreviations. Well, tough, I don't know them! I hope Barbara doesn't mind (she won't have to!).

Did a couple of run-throughs of Canadian Cha-cha (I'm sure I stuck my bum out when trying to knee-bend more into the slalom) and Dutch Waltz (okay, I think). Plus one run-through of the free dance. Plus one run-through of my programme and several of my dance moves.

Forget it: Ice much more crowded today as the elites back from their camp, so for once it didn't look like a sport for the over-50s! Which is good in a lot of ways. But they were tired, so a bit fraught.

My cross-cuts stunk, there is no other word for it. If I got them on edges, like I need to, everything else went to pieces. And even when I tried my hardest to get them on edges, they didn't go very well. We all agreed that one coach we know all too well would have failed me, although the one who was Dance Technical Specialist at Oberstdorf last year would have passed me!

Forgot to say that on Wednesday the coach introduced an appallingly awful variation on his worst exercise, which was to do it with my eyes shut (if safe). Impossible! Desperate. I don't care how many elite coaches make their elite skaters do it..... No!!!!!

[mintypoppet]

Remember this:

Had my first private lesson. Nice to get some constructive feedback.
Fell over at least five times in the space of the 15 minute lesson. Coach initially looked horrified, but then started finding it amusing - apparently I bounce, and this is funny. I knew I had a well-padded backside for a reason.

CCW F xovers are starting to feel easy, and have worked out how to improve my posture on B xovers, which should keep my group lesson coach happy.

Edges feel more solid now that I have orthotics in my skates.

Didn't toepick myself on the novice foxtrot - YAY!

Forget it:

New coach is trying to get me to do F xovers into a FI mohawk into B xovers. And I'm trying reeeeally hard to do it, but it's not happening yet. Easier CW than CCW, as my LFI mohawk is better.

Still having RO edge issues, which isn't making CW xovers any easier. Strange how LO edge is fine, despite my left foot being flat, but the RO isn't, despite having developed a lovely arch. Grr.

[phoenix]

Well, just got back from the shouting match that was my lesson today....:roll: Actually it was all in good fun, but there was lots of swearing--hope the kiddies didn't notice :oops:

Forget: Coach did the choreography for the straightline footwork for my tango. Unbelievably hard, and INSANELY fast--most steps get a 1/2 beat w/ what is already very fast music. And when I asked "do you really think I can do that?!" (hoping for a vote of confidence--'of course I think you can--I believe in you!') But no--the answer I got was "I don't f-ing care if you can do it. You're going to f-ing have to, aren't you?" I think that was when the shouting started....

Remember: But after the lesson I worked on it, & I can actually do it faster than I thought I'd be able to (nowhere near up to speed, of course!). I'm just going to have to work really hard to get this pulled together; I have 8 weeks till the competition.

[BatikatII]

remember: First lesson in a while as our rink's Open comp has been on this week. Daughter skated and won her class - and then won the group artistic with her friend so she was very happy!:D

In lesson I tried backspin and camel spin and camel at least felt like it could be possible soon.

after lesson I landed what was probably my best ever loop jump with a bit of speed in, good height and nice flow out. If only these things were repeatable or I even knew what it was I was doing differently when they feel so good. Also landed several decent flips so am feeling more hopeful that this could go in my new programme and even managed a Flip-cherry ( but only once!)

forget: inter-bronze field moves - urgghhh! Also double 3's - tried these in all directions (inside, outside, forward, backwards) - back insides felt most doable but none of them are great.

[cassarilda]

REMEMBER THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Doing some off ice last night (at some ridiculous hour in my lounge room but anyway! :halo: )... and I got my right foot to turn out properly when extending back!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!! :bow: :bow: hubby was very excited when it happened! :roll: :lol:

Also, we've worked out the problems I have when leading with my left leg (I have trouble getting on my outside edge on that foot), and it was all based around my pelvis and bending through my hip.. I still need to work on my leg strength and my ankle flexibility to get my bend deeper, but hopefully this will all help with my edges and extension! hubby has also given me some exercises to do to work the inner thigh, which helps with turn out and staying out outside edges... so Im doing them religiously from now on! :)

SO, I urge everyone to pay great attention to their body and get someone to explain exactly how things should be in a perfect pose, and then practise with you and tell you when you get it (nothing beats the feeling of getting it right and remembering it! :D ).... It REALLY helps... if you dont have body awareness, you need to work on it! :)

Just had to share... Im very excited. :)

[jenlyon60]

Remember This: I did 3 consecutive patterns of Killian with my coach today. Probably at 85% to 90% of full tempo, and 50-60% full power. Starting from the intro...

Forget it.. Well no, don't forget. Bend my knees and flex my ankles more through the whole dance.

[SkatingOnClouds]

Forget it: since Easter my coach has tried a new tactic to show me how bad some of my skating is, she mimics me. Had me thinking I must be really hopeless and I was feeling quite depressed about my skating. I know I am a messy skater, sometimes lacking control and poise. Worries me that I might not be able to correct my faults at my age.

Remember this: today I went to the Aussie Skate session determined to skate with control, neatness, good posture, extension, and grace. And I think I pretty well succeeded. I think it was much better. Now I have to do it every time, and consider control and neatness before power and speed.

My spins were better centred today, even got in a couple of decent scratch spins. And started working on sit spins again - very bad but it's good to be working on them again.

Didn't get much chance to work on jumps, too crowded and too many littlies whizzing around. But I'm pretty happy with what I did do. In class we didn't do jumps til the end and I was too tired by then, never jump well after 2 hours of skating, so I didn't really attempt much.

[phoenix]

today I went to the Aussie Skate session determined to skate with control, neatness, good posture, extension, and grace.

That has been one of my focus points lately too, & I've found it has helped a lot. I look up a lot more than I used to, & I'm really trying to get extension & toe point even as I grind to a halt on my toe picks! :lol:

[Terri C]

Forget it:
Never mind the fact that I just got my skates sharpened, the freestyle session at my rink this morning was packed to zoo-like proportions!!
The reasons : Our rink is having a ISI In House Competition the same weekend that quite a few of us will be at May Day Open. In addition to that, our club is having a test session the following week after those competitions. So everyone is working on one thing or another.
To add insult to injury, the freestyle schedule for May just came out and the rink thinks it's perfectly okay to take 30 minutes away on Wednesday afternoons and Wednesday is one of the busiest days on the ice!

Remember this:
Nice sharp edges- jumps were easy today, the ones I could do with the massive crowd!

[Rusty Blades]

Remember It (I wrecked when I was 18 and damaged my knees. I had problems with my knees "going out" on me for more than 15 years after that.)

This morning’s session was good, reassuring. With the discomfort in my knees Thursday and Friday I was SO afraid that my knees were going to cause me problems again and the thought of not being able to skate was just too upsetting to comprehend. To get through 2 hours without a knee “going out” (which is what it felt like might happen) was a great relief and they actually feel better this afternoon than they did before skating (although MUCH more tired). THANK GOD!

Forget It! After skating for two hours and then doing an hour with my fitness instructor, I am BEAT! I think the only thing that will get done around here tonight is some TV watching and some Lazy-Boy warming - LOL!!

[phoenix]

Remember: worked really hard for 2 hours today, almost exclusively on footwork. It's still not pretty at all, & way too slow, but I can do it! And in general I'm not that scared, which I'm also happy about. And best of all, you know you've made some progress when you think the power pulls w/ rockers is the easy part! :P

Here it is, if you care for a look:
http://phoenix.sk8rland.com/video/strtline%20ftwk%204.06.AVI
Remember it's only one day old, & I just learned the rocker/choctaw yesterday. It's got a long ways to go. (& the tango playing in the background isn't my music--someone was working on their Argentine)

Forget: I'm not used to working for that long....I'm so exhausted I took a nap this afternoon & am going to bed early! Some days I feel OLD. :!:

[Skittl1321]

[QUOTE=phoenix][Here it is, if you care for a look:
http://phoenix.sk8rland.com/video/strtline%20ftwk%204.06.AVI
[QUOTE]

Well, I don't know what it is supposed to look like- but you looked really good doing it- especially if it's new.

Great job!

[mikawendy]

Remember--
Skated in my club's spring show today. Dress rehearsal went horribly the other day and I was pleased to skate better. Backspin and sit spin sorta cooperated, and I enjoyed skating in front of the crowd of friends & family. It was great to see everyone perform. One number was really great--two gals doing a duet. They did an amazing death spiral.

Forget it--
Didn't do loop loop or flip loop in the program (was aiming to, or to do flip loop loop). Nerves got the better of me, so I stuck with plain loop and flip.

[Raye]

Remember this: My new interpretive is finally beginning to come together. I did the whole program without the music several times this morning.:D

Forget it: Can't do it with the music :frus: the music is faster than I skate and I still can't keep up to it. :roll:

[beachbabe]

remember this- finally double loop is consistent...yess. I only fell on it once today and it didn't even hurt. Overall jumps are good, didn't have to back out much and was landing axel about 90% of the time.

forget it- stupid backspin...kept tripping on the exit. i seriously hate that spin

[cassarilda]

I decided that today would be my final regular Sunday class... its getting a little too repetitive, which the teacher cant help due to new people coming in, the littlies and restricted space.

Remember This:
BUT we did do something new today... inward 3-turns! YAY!!! I sort of got the hang of them, but they will of course need practise.

outward 3 turns, mohawks, stopping (tstops), backward glides, balancing etc are all good.

I also tried a few spread eagles today and hubby mentioned he was jealous because I did them better than he did... I think I have good turn out simply because Ive done dance for so long... I also tried some Ina Bauers... I'll get there eventually...

We also did a pattern of Canasta Tango, trying not to run into people... the rink was PACKED again...

PRACTISE THIS:
Then hubby tried to teach me choktaws, which was interesting... one of the girls at the rink couldnt believe he was teaching me them after I had only been skating about 2.5months... but I did ask him to teach me... the edges are bugging me again, and its hard but Im sure I will get it... I definately need to practise more.

Considering This:
As it was the last day, my skating buddy was a bit upset that I wasnt coming down anymore, but I was thinking I would go down occasionally to say hi to people... I approached her with the thoughts about getting a joint 30min lesson with our coach during the week sometime, and she liked that idea, but unfortunately she doesnt get off work until after the sessions finish. Which led me to wonder if it was worth me getting a weekly 15min lesson on a Friday when hubby goes down to skate...?? Is 15mins worth it? If I get time to warm up prior, we can work on specific footwork... the same coach takes the Wednesday Coffee Club and my weekend group lesson, so he knows where Im at and what I need to work on... hmmm $15 per 15mins plus $14entry = $29... I can skate afterwards as well tho... plus $20 Weds = $49 per week.... I suppose thats not too bad... I allow $50 per week for skating as it is... and 1 group lesson and 1 private is better than 3 lone sessions... hmmmmm

Remember This:
umm what else happened at todays session? I had someone tell me I should go into the Masters cup... its an annual Adults only national competition... I was shocked that someone said I should do it, so I will consider it.... its a good excuse to get out there in a dress anyway.

My bruised knee is getting better, but I still have a lump under the skin which is sore, so Im taking it easy for a bit longer.

Oh crossovers... Im doing crossovers, and trying to concentrate on getting the correct edges and pushing on the back foot after I cross over... I'll get there.. maybe thats what a 15min session would be good for with a private lesson.

Backward crossovers I did, and I felt comfortable enough, but there were too many people around, and it was very congested in the class... I could definately do one way better than the other.

Spins.. two foot spin, I managed 3-4 rotations... yay!!! :)

It was a good session really...

Forget This:
Then on the way home, trying to doing a u-ey to avoid bad traffic ahead, I scraped what I thought was my car along an unmountable kerb.. eeep! :cry: but the scrape was my hub cap (pheww!) and I didnt wreck my wheels (I hope)... poor Syrup... she didnt deserve it :( (yes, my cars name is Syrup... :lol: )

[SkatingOnClouds]

Remember this: I have had a fabulous weekend of skating. Spins are starting to centre again, although only from a t-push, doing them from crossovers is still rather inconsistent. Backspins reasonable, actually got some tracings that look like spins rather than a series of 3 turns.

My coach was also at the public session, she gave me some extra tips on faults I need to correct on loops, toe-loops and salchows (does anything NOT need correcting ??:roll: ). But she also gave me encouragement, I am not as messy as I feared, she said I'm doing alright.

I have realised how little I trust my edges; I always rush the turn, and then rush the jump afterwards. I know my blades need sharpening, but I think it is mostly I need to trust my edges more.

I again tried to focus on being neat and controlled, and am happy with how I skated.

Forget it: Work tomorrow. Back to the real world in a job I would rather not have to do and a job application to write for another job I would rather not have to do. Sigh! What I want to be doing is skating every day.

[sk8pics]

Remember this? When I posted about the stupid fall I had outside at my cousin's house about 6 weeks ago? Well, my finger has still been hurting me and so I finally caved in and went to see a doctor yesterday, and it turns out, I did break that finger! He showed me the x-ray and you can see the crack in a bone in one of the joints. I chipped it, but fortunately it has healed well and in place. So he guesses that it still hurts because of stiffness and so I have instructions from him on what to do, and a radiologist will look at the x-rays just to be sure... So, I don't break my finger skating, but I break my finger walking outside! :giveup: ;)

In spite of all that I skated today and did pretty well. I started wearing two gloves on the hand with the just-healed finger and that's actually helping, since it hurts a lot from the cold. I've never broken anything before, so it's a new experience!

Happy skating everyone!

[Debbie S]

Ouch, sk8pics! I hope your finger feels better soon!

[Mrs Redboots]

Forget it: I'd been wearing the wrong shoes all the previous day helping the Daughter and her fiancé unload their van (they were moving back to London). So my bunion started to hurt, and for some reason, resting it overnight didn't help. I was afraid I'd barely be able to skate (plus I was very stiff, and also wanted to pace myself pending a long walk that afternoon). So I didn't do very much except watch the Husband have his lesson and practice my cross-cuts.

Remember this: However, it was skate-able, and Husband and I did a couple of dances together (Dutch Waltz, Fiesta and Swing Dance - to the proper music!) when the relevant music came on. We also worked on our spin, which was good, and our lift, which wasn't.

[jazzpants]

Remember this:
Nice sunny, warm day in my neck of the woods!!! Which means... the kids are out doing "outdoor things". Which means... NICE EMPTY ICE at my weekend rink!!! YIPPEEEE!!! I got a LOT of Bronze Moves work done this Sunday afternoon!!! I was also warmed enough that my joints allowed me the freedom of movement and I was able to go do crossovers like nobody's business!!! WOO HOO!!!

Forget it:
I did so much Bronze Moves work that I only barely had enough energy to do spins. My first few camels were duds. When I did finally get a camel good enough to do a sit, I couldn't do the sit part of the camel. I had nothing left in me to do jumps. And I still had to do my cardio at the gym afterwards so... Jumps? Forget it!!!